Visualisation of the history of ACM IHM publications

Teachers:

Florian Evéquoz

Denis Lalanne

Project status:

Open

Year:

2015

Context

This data science project aims at exploring, consolidating, and visualizing the metadata covering 30 years of scientific publications in Human-Computer Interaction at the ACM IHM conference, in prevision for the ACM IHM 2016 Conference that will be held in Fribourg (http://ihm2016.afihm.org/) The dataset produced as a result of this thesis should also be made available online for further use by the research community, along with some visualisations of interesting data.

The project is advised in collaboration with Dario Rodighiero, data designer at the EPFL.

The results of the work will be published and presented at the ACM IHM 2016 conference.

Description

The tasks to carry out in this project are the following:

State of the art of similar initiatives

Exploration of the available data (based on dataset provided by ACM)

Development of tools to extract / complete relevant metadata

Choice of structure for publishing the dataset

Online publication of the dataset, with documentation

Design and development of relevant visualisations

Evaluation of the visualizations based on specific research question (to be determined)